Landside-wheel for plows



(No Model.)

A. LINDGREN. LANDSIDE WHEEL Poe PLoWs.

No. 427,881. Patented Mey 13, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

AUGUST LINDGREN, OF MOLINE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO rII-IE MOLINE PLOW COMPANY, OF ILLINOIS.

LAN DSIDEp-WH EEL. FO R PLOWS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,881, dated May 13, 1890.

Application filed August 2,1889. Serial No. 319,547. (No modelli To all whom t may concern: The rod serves not only to permit the exceed- Be it known that I, AUGUST LIDGREN, of ingly small adjustments which are necessary, Moline, in the county of Rock Island and but also to hold the wheel against the very State of Illinois, have invented certain Imsevere strains to which it is subjected with 5 provementsin La1idside\lVl1eels for Plows, of much greater rigidity than the supporting 55 which the following is a specification. devices commonly used.

Hold board plows, particularly wheeled In order to give the wheel an extended plows, are frequent-ly provided at the preswearing-surface at the center, and thus keep ent day with a wheel traveling in the furrow it in line and at the same time exclude dust Io against its vertical wall as a substitute for and dirt from the wearing-surfaces, I adopt 6o theordinary landside. These landside-wheels the construction shown in Fig. 4. must be sustained wholly from the furrow The wheel is cast with a strong central hub side 0r face, and my invention relates to imd and an annular flange (Z on the landside, proved means for thus sustaining them with and is bored through from the side to admit 15 thenecessary rigidity and for effecting their the central bolt d2. The bolt has at the outer 65 gradual vertical adjustment. end a head to retain the wheel and at thein- In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is ner end a reduced threaded neck d3. It is an outline perspective view of an ordinary projected beyond the wheel and tightly into wheeled gang plow provided with my imthe arm E, the shoulder at the end of the neck 2o provement; Figs. 2 and 3, a side and an edge being seated against a corresponding shoul- 7o View of the wheel-carrying arm; Fig. 4, an der in the arm, while the neck is continued axial section through the wheel and its supthrough to the outside of the arm to receive ports. the end of the arm E and the fastening-nut Referring to the drawings, A represents the d5, by which the bolt is held immovably in 25 main frame, which may be of any suitable f place, so as to form a central bearing for the 75 form and construction, mounted on the two Wheel. adjustable main wheels B B and provided On the side of the arm there is formed or with the rigidly-attached plows O O. boltedasleeve e ,which is fitted closely around The foregoing parts are of ordinary conthe wheel-hub and extended within the iange, 3o struction, and are not claimed herein. as shown. This sleeve serves as an additional 8o D is the landsidemfheel, to which my invensupport or bearing for the Wheel, which has, tion relates. It is mounted to run in an upit will be seen, wearing-surfaces on both the right position behind the last plow in the furinside and the outside of its hub. row and against the vertical face of the same Having thus described my invention, what 3 5 to prevent the plow from running to the I claim is- 85 land. The wheel is made with a smooth unl. In a mold-board plow, the beam or frame broken surface on the landside and with a having the plow proper iixed rigidly thereto, Wide overhanging Aflange to produce a broad in combinationA with the landsidewheel beface or tread. It is carried by the rear end hind the plow, the arm having the wheel 4o of an arm E, which is pivoted at c to the plow mounted on its rear end and having its for- 9o standard, so that it may swing up and down. ward end attached to the beam by a horizon- A rod F is jointed or attached in any suita tal pivot, the vertical rod attached at its lower ble manner to the rear end of the arm, and end to said arm and passed at its upper end its upper end threaded and passed through a through a guide on the beam, and the nuts 45 plate f on the frame, and provided with two, applied to the -rod above and below the guide, 95 adjustingnuts f and f2 above and below the whereby the wheel may be given the accurate plate, respectively. By means `oil these nuts vertical adjustments necessary to control the the rod may be caused to raise or lower the depth ot the plow and held firmly in place to wheel gradually and accurately in order to rresist the heavy strains thereon.

5o compensate for the wearing away of the plow. 2. The arm E, having the rigid tubular loo sleeve e thereon, in combination with the f urrowwheel having the tubular huh fitted to revolve closely within said sleeve, and the collar d', tting over the end of the sleeve7 and the headed bolt passed centrally through the Wheel and through the arm E,zu1d secured by :L nut, seid bolt constructed, :Ls shown, with a shouldered end seated tightly and against @shoulder in the arm E, whereby the bolt is enabled to asSist in sustaining the 1o wheel and to hold the Wheel to its place.

In testimony whereof I hereunto Set my hand, this 1st doy of June, 1889, in the presence of two attestng witnesses.

AUGUST LINDGREN.

\\tnesses:

S. M. HILL, W. V. RICHARDS. 

